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FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
Once or Twice a Fortnight - June 15, 2014)
Project 366 Listener Guide #348 & 349
“Louise (Charpentier)”
Paul Dukas once wrote of Louise: "The first and last acts are those of a master; the other two are those of an artist; the whole is the work of a man." Louise is an opera that may be known today as a work with only one hit "Depuis le jour" to its credit, but at one time it was a staple at the great opera houses of the world and was reputed to be a favorite of the Metropolitan Opera's Sir Rudolf Bing who could never remember its name and referred to it as "the one with the girls and the sewing machines."
[L/G # 348 - Acts 1 &2, L/G #349 - Acts 3 & 4]
Gustave Charpentier (1860 â 1956)
Louise (1900)
opera (roman musical) in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux
Ileana Cotrubas (Louise)
Plácido Domingo (Julien)
Gabriel Bacquier (Father)
Jane Berbié (Mother)
Michel Sénéchal (The noctambulist)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra
Gorges Pretre (1976)
Source: https://archive.org/details/FNAO_100319